Atta Akyea speaking at the event.
THE MINISTRY of Works and Housing in partnership with Cleaver House Africa Limited and Racsopat Ghana Limited have announced the construction of 100,000 housing unit within the next six years.
The two bedroom and three bedroom housing units will be delivered using the Clever House Construction Technology in various parts of the country.
The technology is a German engineering designed to fix the huge global housing deficit and to meet the demand for affordable high quality housing using less materials and time.
Minister for Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea, speaking at the launch of the housing units said the project was in line with President Akufo-Addo’s vision of reducing the country’s annual housing deficit.
He added that looking at the project technology, cost and speed as against the conventional building, “this is a ground breaker we need to understand that as many as can be done in the shortest possible time with a warranty which could span as much as 25 years we should give them space to build for Ghanaians.”
He said the project would be replicated in other regions of the country so as not to only concentrate these in the regional capitals.
“We should also go to our local people so they can be properly housed,” he added.
Touching on the affordability of the houses, the sector minister said the term affordable was not only about the price but also the ability for Ghanaians who could not pay to have a mortgage arrangement for them to pay over time.
“If you create a mortgage arrangement then they can own the houses within a stretch of time through instrumental discharges through the banks,” he said.
He also used the platform to disabuse the minds of Ghanaians that the houses were substandard because of the materials used and the time involved.
Julius Kofi Manu, Chief Executive Officer of Clever House Africa, said the project would cut down construction and labour cost by 80 per cent and material cost up to 60 per cent.
By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri